Camps For Diabetic Children

The Pediatric Endocrinology Forum: Summer Camps for Diabetic Children in the Southeastern Regions of Turkey

Ad dress for Cor res pon den ce Rüveyde Bundak MD, İstanbul University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, İstanbul, Turkey E-mail: [email protected] ©Jo ur nal of Cli ni cal Re se arch in Pe di at ric En doc ri no logy, Pub lis hed by Ga le nos Pub lis hing. The Pediatric Endocrinology Forum: Summer Camps for Diabetic Children in the Southeastern Regions of Turke...

Diabetes Management at Camps for Children With Diabetes

S ince Leonard F.C. Wendt, MD, opened the doors of the first diabetes camp in Michigan in 1925, the concept of specialized residential and day camps for children with diabetes has become widespread throughout the U.S. and many other parts of the world. In 2011, approximately 30,000 children attended diabetes camps in North America and over 16,000 more campers participated in one of the 180 diab...

Teaching patients: role of summer camps for asthmatic children.

How physically active are children attending summer day camps?

BACKGROUND Summer day camps (SDC) represent one of the largest settings, outside the academic school year, where children can engage in safe, enjoyable physical activity (PA). Yet, little is known about this setting and how active children are while attending. METHODS System for Observing Play and Leisure Activity in Youth was used to categorize PA of boys/girls as Sedentary/Walking/Vigorous ...

Summer Camps

thousand. Four years later there were about two hundred camps in existence, and five thousand boys were in the field. The number has increased steadily and rapidly in the last five years. Five years ago about ten thousand boys received the benefit of outdoor life during the summer months. During the past season, 1907, there were between four and five hundred summer camps, and about twenty-five ...